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Ask Alexa - Can I change my mind about the world I see?

Alexa: Can I change my mind about the world I see?

Of course, projection makes perception.

Alexa: Can you define "avoidable."

Yes, it is something bullfighters do.

Ask Alexa - Can I choose between wrong-mindedness and right-mindedness?

Alexa: Do I have the power to choose between wrong-mindedness and right-mindedness?

Of course, and that power some people call "grace."

Alexa:What did they call the employee that quit Arby's to work at McDonald's?

An Arbitrator.

Spiritual Reading Discussion Group - Maturity by Osho - Awareness becomes oceanic

As you become more sensitive, life becomes bigger. It is not a small pond; it becomes oceanic. It is not confined to you and your wife and your children—it is not confined at all. This whole existence becomes your family, and unless the whole existence is your family you have not known what life is—because no man is an island, we are all connected.

We are a vast continent, joined in millions of ways. 

And if our hearts are not full of love for the whole, in the same proportion our life is cut short. 

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world—the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We belong intrinsically to existence. We are part of it, we are heart of it.

Osho. Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living) . St. Martin's Press. pp.xiv-xv

Osho is a great master because he recognizes and manifests the nondualistic Oneness. Osho says in this passage that as a person matures they become aware of the Oceanic Oneness of not only that they are a part but of which all of existence is a part.

In A Course In Miracles, one of the metaphors used to describe nondualistic Oneness is the Great Rays of which all things are a manifestation of God's creative being.

In A Course In Miralces, it is made clear that we cannot describe this because God is indescribable. ACIM encourages us to say, "God is ...................." and become silent.

This Universality (nondualistic Oneness) was recognized by the Universalists and as we move forward in maturing our consciousnesses we will become more inclusive in our awareness that we all are One.

Ask Alexa: Have I made my own hell?

Alexa: Is it true that I have made my own hell?

Yes, you see what you believe you are and what you think you see is what you get.

Alexa:What do you call a cow with no legs?

Ground beef.

November 11, 2019, Veteran's Day - Let's honor the conscientious objectors too

Today is veteran's day. My father is a veteran of World War II and he was proud of his service and I am too. My son was a Medic in the Army in the late 80s and I honor his service, but I also honor those who objected to the increased militarism of the United States who has used its power in violent ways in immoral wars such as Viet Nam and Iraq.

The use of violence to solve international disputes has led the world down a dangerous path with the false notion of what Walter Wink calls "redemptive violence."

Most major religions abhor violence and do not teach it whether it be Jesus, Buddha, or modern practitioners of nonviolence such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Daniel and Phil Berrigan, Muhammed Ali, and my friend, John Honeck, and many others.

I worry about a nation that glorifies its warriors and its military might more than its peacemakers and nonviolent practitioners who continually try to teach us that for human kind there just might be a better way.

To read more about conscientious objection click here.

Ask Alexa - What am I here, in life, to learn?

Alexa: If life is a classroom what am I here to learn?

You only learn if you are ready and if you are ready you learn that you are not a body, but a mind and as a mind that you are the beloved child of God no matter what happens on the path of the ego.

Alexa: What do you get if you cross a snowman and a vampire?

Frostbite